Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> writes: > I've been off list for a few days and since the posts are trimmed I > don't what's happening really. I think the gist of the request was not to entirely strip out the prior message, but only include the context or part you are responding to (which is USUALLY not the entire message and even less likely part of someone else's earlier response). This is classic USENET "netiquette" but it dates to the days when people read messages on 80x24 character screens, on devices that had no local storage, and had 300 - 9600 baud connection speeds. Hardly relevant today, but some people still use dial-up, or other low bandwith, and many still consider it standard courtesy. Allan -- 1991 Vanagon GL |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.